Cartesian product of large iterators (itertools)

Question

From a previous question I learned something interesting. If Python\'s itertools.product is fed a series of iterators, these iterators will be converted into tu

Answer 1

Here's an implementation which calls callables and iterates iterables, which are assumed restartable:

def product(*iterables, **kwargs):
    if len(iterables) == 0:
        yield ()
    else:
        iterables = iterables * kwargs.get('repeat', 1)
        it = iterables[0]
        for item in it() if callable(it) else iter(it):
            for items in product(*iterables[1:]):
                yield (item, ) + items

Testing:

import itertools
g = product(lambda: itertools.permutations(xrange(100)),
            lambda: itertools.permutations(xrange(100)))
print next(g)
print sum(1 for _ in g)